Mary and Max (2009)

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Starring

• Philip Seymour Hoffman as Max Jerry Horovitz (voice)
• Toni Collette as Mary Daisy Dinkle (voice)
• Eric Bana as Damien (voice)
• Barry Humphries
• Bethany Whitmore

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"Mary and Max" is unique. A claymation animation by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot (Harvie Krumpet), it tells the simple story of a 20-year pen-pal friendship between two very different people: Mary Dinkle, a chubby, lonely 8-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horowitz, a 44-year-old Jewish man, who is severely obese, suffers from Asperger's syndrome, and lives an isolated life in New York City. It is very much a triumph of emotion, insight, and eccentricity-a complete delight.

This film that explores friendship, autism, taxidermy, psychiatry, alcoholism, where babies come from, obesity, kleptomania, trust, copulating dogs, sexual and religious differences, agoraphobia, and more, and is rooted in a very personal relationship, is proof of why we go to the movies and a truly exceptional portrait of compassion and love.

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